429, Lot: 4. Estimate $750. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Philistis, wife of Hieron II. 275-215 BC. AR 16 Litrai – Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.10 g, 4h). Struck circa 240-218/5 BC. Diademed and veiled head left; star to right / Nike driving slow quadriga right; star above, K to right. CCO 108 (D7/R18); BAR Issue 65; HGC 2, 1556; Gulbenkian 354 (same dies). Good VF, toned, hairline flan crack, slight roughness.

Ex Aurea 38 (21 May 2011), lot 355.